The government plans to isolate its systems handling critical information from the Internet to protect data from cyberattacks, following an attack in May that led to a massive personal data leak from the pension service, government sources said. The measure will be included in ...

Seven Bank has been hit by distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks. The bank, a member of the retail giant Seven & I Holdings Co. group, also received an email message ordering it to pay a rensom in bitcoins in return for a ...

Data about defense personnel may have been leaked after a cyberattack in May compromised computers at a Tokyo hotel mainly used by Defense Ministry officials and Self-Defense Forces personnel, sources said Tuesday. A computer at Hotel Grand Hill Ichigaya, run by the mutual aid ...

America’s intelligence chief said on Thursday that China was the top suspect in a hack of a U.S. agency that compromised the personnel records of millions of Americans, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The comments from Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James ...

The Justice Ministry said Thursday it has shut off its internal computer network’s Internet connection after discovering a suspected virus infection in one of the terminals. While the ministry believes no information has been leaked, it reported the case to police as a possible ...

Several Canadian government websites and servers were taken down in a cyberattack on Wednesday, the government said, with the hacking group Anonymous taking responsibility in what it said was retaliation for a new anti-terrorism law passed by Canada’s lawmakers. The general website for government ...

The U.S. government on Thursday admitted hackers may have accessed the personal data of 4 million current and former federal employees, in a cyberattack suspected to have originated in China. “As a result of the incident,” uncovered in April, the Office of Personnel Management ...

Metropolitan Police Department said they confirmed two cases of suspicious calls made to elderly women in Tokyo Tuesday predending to be an official of the Japan Pension Service, according to media reports. Police warned of possible fraud in relation to the 1.25 million cases ...

Hoping to minimize the political damage from the latest pension system scandal, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga admonishes the Japan Pension Service and announces that a team will be set up to probe the massive theft of pension data.

Former U.S. and Russian commanders Thursday called for scrapping “hair-trigger” alerts on nuclear weapons that carry grave risks of a potential atomic disaster — especially in an age of cyberattacks. Retired military officers from the United States, Russia and other nuclear powers issued a ...

Sony Pictures Entertainment has named veteran film executive Tom Rothman, a force behind all-time top-grossing blockbusters “Titanic” and “Avatar,” to head its movie studio in a shuffle prompted by the fallout from the recent cyberattack. Rothman, 60, takes over for Amy Pascal, who suffered ...

Sony on Wednesday cut its full-year loss forecast by more than a quarter to ¥170 billion, thanks to a weak yen and improving smartphone sales. But it warned of further job cuts as part of its sweeping corporate overhaul. The revised number for the ...